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...Since Ivins' death, his attorney, Paul Kemp, has repeatedly said he was innocent. He says Ivins cooperated fully with the FBI during two dozen interviews and passed at least two lie-detector tests. Kemp claims the FBI harassed his client for months, driving him into a spiral of alcohol and depression. Certainly, Ivins' last months were tortured. He was twice hospitalized for depression, once after one of his counselors said he had threatened to kill his co-workers. By then law-enforcement officials had searched his home, his computers, his cars, his safe-deposit box, his office...
...stimulated the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Then both sides developed antiballistic missiles, but they soon learned that these could be overwhelmed by missiles with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, known as MIRVs. The way in which ABMs provoked MIRVs is the classic paradigm of an ''offense-defense spiral.'' The resulting proliferation of MIRVs has been one of the most disruptive factors in both the preservation of strategic stability and the quest for arms control. Today the stockpiles of the superpowers are roughly comparable in overall size, and the U.S. has an edge in some weapons (such as cruise...
...really not part of SDI.'' To stop a bomber or cruise-missile attack would require an extremely costly air- defense system. Even then, an enemy could no doubt find ways to transport a devastating nuclear bomb to the U.S. While acknowledging the risk of an intensified offense-defense spiral, Perle speculated that the Soviets might not even try to overwhelm a partly effective shield against ballistic missiles. ''It just may be,'' he said, ''that the development of a defense would discourage the Soviets from making the very sizable investments necessary to overcome that defense.'' This was a curiously optimistic view...
...downward spiral has stopped.'' So said Sally McElwreath, a Trans World Airlines official, as she described faint but encouraging signs last week that the dramatic drop in U.S. tourist travel to Europe had at last bottomed out. Most airlines were reticent about releasing figures, but British Airways reported that bookings, down to a mere 5,000 a week after the U.S. air attack on Libya in April, had risen to more than 60,000, just 3,000 short of the figure for the same week last year. Pan Am's reservations have been increasing 8% to 10% a week...
...number and amounts to 6% of all U.S. mortgages. The fear is that mass foreclosures could accelerate price declines, bringing on a cascade of additional foreclosures and economic trouble in their wake. "I get this sense in an increasing number of markets around the country that this death spiral is developing," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com and an outspoken advocate of doing more to combat foreclosures...